Eisai Company, Limited

Naoko Tsukahara

Norihiro Ueda

Toru Haneda

Tatsuo Watanabe

Yoshihiko Kotake

Kyosuke Kitoh

Jun Niijima

Takeshi Nagasu

Nozomu Koyanagi

Hiroshi Yoshino

Kentaro Yoshimatsu

Yasuhiro Funahashi

Akihiko Tsuruoka

Keiko Takahashi

Yuji Yamamoto

Tadashi Okabe

Kazumasa Nara

Junichi Kamata

Yoichi Ozawa

Takashi Owa

Taro Semba

Shinichi Hamaoka

Toshiaki Wakabayashi

Naoko Hata

Sulfonamide-containing heterocyclic compounds

Novel tricyclic heterocyclic sulfonamide derivatives and sulfonic ester derivatives which have excellent antitumor activity and are represented by the following general formula (I) and processes for producing the same are provided. The present sulfonamide derivatives or a sulfonic ester derivatives are represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein G represents an aromatic 5- or 6-membered ring; L represents 0 or --N(R.sup.1)-- and --R.sup.1 represents hydrogen or lower alkyl; and M represents a tricyclic structure selected from among the following; ##STR2## rings A and B each represent an unsaturated 5- or 5 -membered ring; X represents N(R.sup.2) wherein R.sup.2 represents hydrogen or lower alkyl, or NHCO; Y represents 0, S(O).sub.n, C(R.sup.3) (R.sup.4), C(O), N(R.sup.5), CH(R.sup.6)CH(R.sup.7), C(R.sup.8).dbd.C(R.sup.9), N(R.sup.10) C(O), N.dbd.CR.sup.11), OCH(R.sup.12), S(O).sub.n CH(R.sup.13) or N(R.sup.14)CH(R.sup.15); Z represents nitrogen or C(R.sup.16); and n represents 0, 1 or 2, R.sup.3 to R.sub.13, R.sup.15 and R.sup.16 each represent hydrogen or lower alkyl, and R.sup.14 represents hydrogen, lower alkyl or lower acyl.

Tricyclic heterocyclic sulfonamide and sulfonic ester derivatives

A sulfonamide derivative or a sulfonic ester derivative represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## {G represents an aromatic 5- or 6-membered ring; L represents O or --N(R.sup.1)-- (R.sup.1 represents hydrogen or lower alkyl); and M represents ##STR2## rings A and B represent each an unsaturated 5- or 6-membered ring; Y represents O, S(O).sub.n, C(R.sup.3)(R.sup.4), C(O), N(R.sup.5), CH(R.sup.6)CH(R.sup.7), C(R.sup.8).dbd.C(R.sup.9), N(R.sup.10)C(O), N.dbd.C(R.sup.11), OCH(R.sup.12), S(O).sub.n CH(R.sup.13) or N(R.sup.14)CH(R.sup.15).

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